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Failure to Modernize The Real Cost

@Jbuck_imPower

April 2017 - Webinar

jbuck@impowertechnologies.com

December 2008

Agenda

• Employment Trends
• IT Future Growth
• I.T. Retirements
• College Today
• Skills Gap
• Students Today
• How To Fail
• What You Can Do

Failure To Modernize

Employment Trends

TOP 10 TECHNOLOGY JOBS TO WATCH FOR IN 2018

• https://www.roberthalf.com/sites/default/files/images/RHT_0917_IG_3840x2700_SG2018-TopTen_USA_ENG.jpg

• https://www.roberthalf.com/sites/default/files/images/RHT_0917_IG_3840x2700_SG2018-SalaryMap_USA_ENG.jpg

2018 Midpoint Salary’s

• https://www.roberthalf.com/salary-guide/technology/software-engineer

2018 US NEWS TOP 100 JOBS

• https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs

• http://www.economicmodeling.com/

Breaking Down the Labor Market Supply & Demand Software Developers

• http://www.economicmodeling.com/supply-and-demand-of-software-developers/

Failure To Modernize

IT Future Growth

US Dept. of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Information Security Analysts - 37%

• Much faster than average

Computer Systems Analysts - 25%

• Much faster than average

Software Developers - 22%

• Much faster than average

Database Administrators - 15%

• Faster than average

I.T. Services Growing

IT Employment expected to grow

Average annual rate of 6.1%

• www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/careers-in-growing-field-of-information-technology-services.htm

2018 H-1B Visa Job Categories

Top 6 Jobs are IT Positions!

2018 H-1B Visa Sponsors

Failure To Modernize

IT Retirements

Retirement Leads to IT Job Opportunities

• 10K people turn 65 every day
• In the US
• Trend will continue through 2030
• wisecareers.com/articles/information-technology/baby-boomer-retirement-makes-way-it-job-opportunities

Retirees Help Create 55 Million Jobs

• Baby boomers retiring
• 31M jobs will open up
• 24M more by 2020
• www.georgetown.edu/news/study-finds-retirees-will-create-more-jobs-2020.html

IT Starts to Prepare for a Workforce Exodus

• IT veteran workers
• Still relied upon
• Help run critical systems
• On somewhat dated technology

Failure To Modernize

Colleges Today

Colleges Have Changed

• BIG business now!
• It’s the bottom line
• It’s “Butts in the seat!”
• Receive funding

based on enrollment & grants

• Constantly trying

to maximize revenues

An Instructor Teaches What Sells…

• Instructors paid by the number of students

An Instructor Teaches What Sells…

• Instructors paid by the number of students
• A low number of students
• Class is cancelled
• Instructor receives a lower percentage of his workload

An Instructor Teaches What Sells…

• Instructors paid by the number of students
• A low number of students
• Class is cancelled
• Instructor receives a lower percentage of his workload
• Instructors teach many classes…
• They have to make a living!

An Instructor Teaches What Sells…

• College instructors in “Highly skilled”

areas

• Compensated at a much lower rate

than their counterparts in industry

• No compensation difference

between teaching

• Microsoft Office and PC Basics
• IBM i System Administration
• Teach Large number of classes
• Limited time to learn new

technologies

What Instructors Do

• Teach what is easy & fun!
• What will entertain my students?
• Teach topics that
• Are easy to learn
• Have unlimited resources

for the instructor & student

• Popular technologies lead to

more students

College performance

Question – If college’s are doing a great job… Why do we need 1.2 million H1B’s? Today’s businesses have limited input on what colleges teach. Usually a “Pizza Party” for the college to announce what they plan for their students

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Colleges Today

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

• https://www.scribd.com/document/324008101/MarketPoint-Infographic-Skills-Gap-2015-August#from_embed

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

• https://www.scribd.com/document/324008101/MarketPoint-Infographic-Skills-Gap-2015-August#from_embed

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

• https://www.scribd.com/document/324008101/MarketPoint-Infographic-Skills-Gap-2015-August#from_embed

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

• https://www.scribd.com/document/324008101/MarketPoint-Infographic-Skills-Gap-2015-August#from_embed

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

• https://www.scribd.com/document/324008101/MarketPoint-Infographic-Skills-Gap-2015-August#from_embed

The Skills Gap… What about Canada???

• https://www.roberthalf.ca/sites/roberthalf.ca/files/rh-pdfs/rh_demand_skilled_talent_vol13_can.pdf

The Skills Gap… What about Canada???

• https://www.roberthalf.ca/sites/roberthalf.ca/files/rh-pdfs/rh_demand_skilled_talent_vol13_can.pdf

The Skills Gap… What about Canada???

https://www.roberthalf.ca/sites/roberthalf.ca/files/rh- pdfs/rh_demand_skilled_talent_vol13_can.pdf

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

Employers are having difficult time filling jobs

• Interesting fact when more

people are graduating with college degrees then ever before;

• 39% of people under 25

unemployed or underemployed

• 64% of today’s jobs don’t

require a college education

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

Student Debt Crisis: The Recession Started It; Colleges Sustain It; And Politicians Make It Worse - Forbes

Student Debt:

• Totals 1.3 Trillion
• This amounts to 2/3 of

total Credit Card and Auto Loans

• 15 percent of retirees

have student loan debt

The Skills Gap…What about Canada???

• http://www.debt101.ca/news/how-big-is-canadas-student-debt-today

The Skills Gap… What about Canada???

• http://www.debt101.ca/news/how-big-is-canadas-student-debt-today

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

Three Players:

• The Employer
• The Job Seeker
• Academia

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

The Employer

• Complain about a shortage of qualified

workers

• Hiring managers want workers that are

immediately productive

• 49 % of employers site… Lack of job specific

skills IBM i & RPG?

• Only 24% of employers agree that lack of on

the job training causes a shortage

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

The Job Seeker

• Today’s youth are told to “Follow your dreams”
• Little education about the entry level positions

available to them

• 44% of college graduates under 25 hold jobs

requiring less than a college degree.

The Skills Gap… it’s a growing problem

Academia

• 96% of academics think they should communicate with potential employers about

their curriculum

• Only 45% polled report doing so on a regular basis
• This communication is often is a biyearly meeting to tell employers about the

college curriculum changes

• Changes to college curriculum often takes 2 – 3 years.
• By the time the curriculum is changed the class is no longer relevant

Failure To Modernize

Students Today

Would a Student Want to Code...

• Employee payroll report
• Order Entry Application

Would a Student Want to Code...

• Employee payroll report
• Order Entry Application

Or…

Would a Student Want to Code...

• $1M iPhone App
• $100M Online Game
• f the century

Or…

• Employee payroll report
• Order Entry Application

Students Think..

“I’ll write one program & I’m done!”

Enterprise System Topics are Not “Sexy!”

• What’s cool about enterprise systems?
• Usually a “Boring” business application
• IBM is out of business
• They used to make good typewriters
• People talk about dead systems
• AS400
• iSeries
• System i

Enterprise System Topics are Not “Sexy!”

• RPG & COBOL are old…
• No one uses those languages
• Why would I want to learn this “Old Stuff?”
• Most students have had

limited interaction with business

• Student life & the world’s processing

is on their iPhone

• Recent Sprint Advertisement!
• “Now that your life is on your phone!”

Students Don’t Understand the Big Picture

• They Grew up with Microsoft & Apple
• I asked a first semester class
• “What is IBM’s business?”
• Three had never heard of IBM
• Five students didn’t have a clue what the company does
• Most said “Something to do with computers?”
• They are rarely exposed to Enterprise systems
• Except in History Books!
• Even a Gateway IT program advisor
• “IBM is out of business!”
• “Why does the Software Developer program

teach IBM classes?”

• He thought Lenovo bought IBM!

Perception of a Mainframe

Perception of a Mainframe

Perception of Cloud Computing

Would a Young IT Professional Work for You?

Failure To Modernize

How your company can Fail

80’s Tools & Techniques

Use 80’s Tools & Techniques

Use 80’s Tools & Techniques

Use 80’s Tools & Techniques

Failure to Modernize

• Deal with dwindling “AS400” professional resources
• Higher costs to work on your “Old stuff”
• Business costs because your system cannot adapt to changes
• Overseas skills
• Next generation of IT professionals will “PASS” on your company
• Will there always be “Unlimited” foreign workers
• Eventually $$$$$$$.
• Complete rewrite or migration
• Different software and/or platform.

Failure To Modernize

What You Can Do

What Your Company Can Do

• Work with high schools & college’s
• Understand that young people will not work with old technologies
• Modernize to attract young IT professionals.
• They are excited about helping to move your company forward.
• Offer Internships & jobs
• Support academic & industry organizations

Become involved with Education

Typically, instructors don’t interact well with businesses.

Most haven’t been involved in business for years… if ever Take one to lunch or offer to help with a class. Help them understand what is going

• n in industry

Volunteer to help high schools & colleges

Computer systems and software Help them with curriculum that will help business

Talk to students about enterprise systems

Visit colleges, high schools & middle schools

Support Enterprise Education

Lend Technical Resources to Colleges

Where are the resources.. A recent example!

Young People Won’t Work with OLD Technology

• Your company MUST develop a modernization plan
• The software & tools to modernize are available
• Less expensive to modernize than
• Changing platforms
• Completely rewriting your system
• Modernization
• Keep your Core Business Logic
• Modernize your Database
• Modernize your User Interface

Young People Won’t Work with OLD Technology

Modernization Steps

• Start slow
• Concentrate on one area
• Model, View, Controller architecture
• Be prepared for the

next “Final Solution!”

Tools are Available

Replace your “Retro” Code

1 As Michelle Lyons refers to the old stuff!

Use RDi & Modern RPG

Offering Internships & Jobs

What are the Benefits of Young IT Professionals?

• PHP, HTML, JavaScript

New skills Many new technologies are second nature to young people

• Retirements lose technical skills
• Retirements lose business knowledge

You will teach young IT professionals your business Old timers will learn from the youngsters and vice versa!

IBM Power Systems Academic Initiative

• Contact IBM & tell them your

concern

• Post your jobs on IBM’s job board
• powersystemsjobs.com

IBM Power Systems Academic Initiative

• Contact IBM & tell them your

concern

• Post your jobs on IBM’s job board
• Check out the colleges on the

PSAI web site

• www.ibm.com/university/power/na.html

Industry Organizations

COMMON & Local user groups

• The web has hurt these organizations…
• The boss says “Can’t you watch a

webinar or something?”

• Attend conferences & learn new skills
• Volunteer with COMMON
• Volunteer with your local user group
• Invite local Colleges to attend user

group events

• College Administrators
• Instructors
• Students
• common.org & wmcpa.org

Failure to Modernize The Real Cost

@Jbuck_imPower

April 2017 - Webinar

jbuck@impowertechnologies.com

Jim Buck Phone 262-705-2832 Email – jbuck@impowertechnologies.com Twitter - @j_buck51 www.impowertechnologies.com

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